Hair waving device



June 6, 1933. D WEBBER 1,912,504

HAIR WAVING DEVICE Filed Nov. 17, 1931 Fatented June 6, 1933 PATENT OFFICE DANIEL WEBBER, OF GRAFTON, NORTH DAKOTA.

HAIR WAVIITG DEVICE Application filed Novembenl'i', 1931.

This invention aims to provide a simple means for waving the human hair.

It is within the province of the disclosure to improve generally and to enhance the utility of devices of that type to which the invention appertains.

With the above and other objects in view, which will appear as the description proceeds, the invention resides in the combination and arrangement of parts and in the details of construction hereinafter described and claimed, it being understood that changes in the precise embodiment of the invention herein disclosed, may be made within the scope of what is claimed, without departing from the spirit of the invention.

In the accompanying drawing Figure 1 shows in elevation, a device constructed in accordance with the invention, a

strand of human hair being shown, diagrammatically, in place;

Figure 2 is an elevation at right angles to Figure 1, parts being in section;

Figure 3 is a longitudinal section, showing a portion of the handle and parts which cooperate therewith;

Figure 4 is a transverse section on the line 44l of Figure 3;

Figure 5 is a transverse section on the line 55 of Figure 3.

The device forming the subject matter of this application is made of metal, so that it can be heated, for use in a heated condition.

It comprises a first stem member or rod 1. and a second stem member or rod 2, the rods 1 and 2 being disposed in parallel relation and opposite to each other. The member 1 may be referred to as a movable member, since it i has a longitudinal movement, with respect to Serial No. 575,606.

member 2, longitudinally of the said member. Similar arms 6 are carried by the first member 1 and are adapted to be disposed opposite to the arms 5 of the member 2, as shown in Figures 1 and 2. The members 1 and 2 have flat, contacting, inner surfaces 7, and convexed outer surfaces 8, the surfaces 8 of the members 1 and 2 cooperating to form a cylindrical surface. The arms 5 and 6 are provided with flat, contacting, inner surfaces 9, and with convexed outer surfaces 10, the said surfaces 10 cooperating to form a cylindrical surface. On the outer ends of the arms 5 and 6 there are enlargements 11 which aid in keeping the hair on the arms, it being understood that the showing of the hair in Figure 1 of the drawing is diagrammatic, and that a much larger amount of hair may be waved at once than the showing of Figure 1 seems to indicate.

' In addition to the arms 5, the member 2 has a single arm 5a, which is nearest to the handle 17. There is no arm on the member 1, corresponding to the arm 5a. The reason why there is no corresponding arm on the member 1 will be explained hereinafter.

The member 1 is provided on its inner surface with a longitudinal guideway 12, in which slides a projection 14 on the inner surface of the member 2. The purpose of the guideway 12 and the projection 14 is to hold the members 1 and 2 together, so that the member 1 can move longitudinally of the member 2.

Near to its lower end, the member 1 has external threads 15. There are no corresponding threads on the member 2. The member 2 has sets of outwardly extended lugs g6, spaced apart longitudinally of the memhe numeral 17 marks the operating member or handle, hereinbefore alluded to. The handle 17 has a longitudinal bore 18, receiving the members 1 and 2, as Figure 3 will show. The handle 17 has threads 19, located within the bore 18 and extending through the upper end of the operating member or handle, from the upper end of the operating member to a point spaced from the lower end of the operating member. Threads 19 of the operating member 17 cooperate with the threads on the part 1. The handle 17 is provided with internal circumferential grooves 20. hen the handle 17 is rotated, the lugs 16 on the member 2 travel in the grooves 20. This construction holds the member 2 from moving longitudinally in the handle 17. The member 1 can move longitudinally in the handle 17, because it does not have any lugs, like the lugs 16, longitudinal movement being imparted to the member 1, when the handle 17 is rotated on the member 2, owing to the fact that the threads 15 of the member 1 cooperate with the threads 19 of the handle. The handle 17 has internal longitudinal grooves 21, through which the lugs 16 pass, when the handle is slid in the direction of the arrow A in Figure 3, upon the parts 1 and 2, in the assembling of the device. In the absence of the longitudinal grooves 21, the lugs 16, of course, could not find their way into the circumferential grooves 20, and it would be impossible to assemble the device.

In practical operation, the strand 50 of hair, which is to be waved, is tied at 51, to the end 3 of the member 1, in the notch 4;. The strand of hair thence is wound about the arms 5 and 6 alternately from side to side, as shown in Figure 1. The lower end of the strand 50 is tied at 52 to the arm 5a on the member 2. It will now be explained why there is no arm on the member 1, corresponding to the arm 5a on the member 2. If there was such an arm on the member 1, the cord at 52, engaging that arm and the arm 541., would prevent the member 1 from moving lengthwise of the member 2.

After the hair has been arranged as shown in Figure 1 on the heated device, the operator rotates the handle 17, and the member 1 is advanced, owing to the cooperation which exists between the threads 15 on the member 1, and the internal threads 19 of the handle 17. hen relative longitudinal movement between the members 1 and 2 thus is brought about, the arms 6 on the member 1 no longer are in alignment with the arms 5 on the member 2, and the strand 50 of hair is tightened and stretched, it being obvious that waves will be put into the hair, uniformly and evenly.

Having thus described the invention, what is claimed is In a hair waver, a pair of elongated first and second members located side by side, a plurality of spaced projections on the outer longitudinal surfaces of said members, the inner longitudinal surfaces of said members having slidably interengaged holding-parts comprising a longitudinal guideway in one of said members, and a projection on the other of said members, the first member having external threads and the second member being smooth, the second member being provided with sets of outwardly projecting lugs spaced apart longitudinally of the second member, a handle having a longitudinal bore receiving the said first and second members, the handle having threads located within the bore and extending through the inner end of the 1 DANIEL WEBBER. 

